Pentagon: Creative Accounting; Commodity Buying; Program Crunch; Reform Pilgrimage * DoD is infamous for being unable to pass an audit, a situation they’re supposed to remedy by 2017, though whether they will meet that deadline is doubtful. So how do they...
Do Buy… Airliners * Day 1 of the Dubai airshow broke records yesterday in the airliner world, but on the military side the UAE still hasn’t decided which jets to acquire, despite hands-on business development help from UK Prime Minister David Cameron....
DoD to Focus on Data Rights * Katrina McFarland, assistant secretary of defense (acquisition), wants to push program managers to move away from closed systems such as those used on the F-22: “What have you done to make your system open, and why? Where did you...
Options for Reducing US Deficit, Sequestration Pain * Spend no more than you earn? No, it cannot be so simple. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest assessment [PDF] of how the US government could tackle its fiscal imbalances. This will inform the...
Pentagon October Awards * Last month’s government shutdown contributed to a 66% sequential drop in DoD awards, to $15.7B across 185 awards, vs. 717 awards worth a total $46B. Since the federal government tends to spend significantly more in September at the end...
